Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 18

Every Buddhist is reminded of the virtue of self-sacrifice whenever the moon is full, and it is easy to understand how the Buddha became identified as the Hare or Rabbit.

Who acts: moon · What happens: remind, be, understand, identify · To what, where: Buddhist, Buddha

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Buddhist	det
2	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reminded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reminded	aux:pass
4	reminded	remind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 virtue	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 virtue	det
7	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reminded	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 sacrifice	case
9	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sacrifice	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 self	punct
11	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 virtue	nmod
12	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 full	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moon	det
14	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 full	cop
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reminded	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 easy	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 easy	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 easy	cop
21	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reminded	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 understand	mark
23	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 easy	xcomp
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 identified	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Buddha	det
26	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 identified	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 identified	aux:pass
28	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 understand	advcl
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 Hare	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Hare	det
31	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 identified	obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 Rabbit	cc
33	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Hare	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reminded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	present · passive		every Buddhist	of the virtue of self sacrifice	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of virtue=Topic
2	is	present	the moon		full, whenever property	tree rules
3	is	present			easy property	tree rules
4	understand	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	identify	past · passive		the Buddha	as the Hare or Rabbit	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as hare=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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